Walter Kohn: American physicist (1923–2016)
Walter Kohn (March 9, 1923 – April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist of Jewish descent.
Walter Kohn | |
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 Kohn at the 2012 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting | |
| Born | Walter Kohn March 9, 1923 |
| Died | April 19, 2016 (aged 93) |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto, Harvard |
| Known for | Density functional theory |
| Spouse(s) | Lois (Adams) Mara (Vishniac) Schiff |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry(1998), Buckley Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego |
| Doctoral advisor | Julian Schwinger |
He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998.
Kohn was one of 20 Nobel Laureates who signed the "Stockholm memorandum" at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden on 18 May 2011.
Kohn died on April 19, 2016 at his home in Santa Barbara, California from jaw cancer, at the age of 93.
References
Other websites
- Photograph of Walter Kohn: [1] Archived 2009-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
- "Quantum Chemistry Comes of Age," Archived 2007-10-10 at the Wayback Machine The Chemical Educator, Vol. 5, No. 3, S1430-4171(99)06333-7, doi:10.1007/s00897990333a, © 2000 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
- Freeview video interview with Walter Kohn by the Vega Science Trust
- Official homepage of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998
- Kohn's faculty website Archived 2010-06-19 at the Wayback Machine at University of California-Santa Barbara. Retrieved November 11, 2006.
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